p. 5 | On the Gold Coast by T. M. French

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 31, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, Nos. 43, 44.

On the Gold Coast

By T. M. French

The Apollonian people of the Gold Coast have been famous for their indifference to Christianity. In their villages the evidences of heathenism are on every side. Sacrifices

to the spirits appear at many places along the highways; and on entering the villages one sees usually small huts erected where they cook food for the dead. Fetish groves are connected with nearly all the important villages. But God is moving in these last days upon the hearts of this heathen people, and they now send to us the Macedonian cry, "Come over and help us."

At one point we have a church of over forty members, and a thriving school. On my visit, with an interpreter I spoke to a large concourse of people, who listened with the deepest interest to the message of salvation. My heart was made to rejoice as those who have taken their stand related to me their experiences in coming out from heathenism and accepting our Lord Jesus Christ.

I visited another school forty miles farther up the coast, and returned with a greater burden for this long-neglected country than ever before. Twenty-two villages in the Apollonian region of the Gold Coast are calling for Christian schools to be opened among them. We are unable to respond without funds. Must these people wait in darkness, who are calling for light?

T. M. FRENCH.